Gentleman's Game - Cricket?

Cricinfo has an interesting discussion between ex-cricketers and umpires involved in what were a few shameful un-gentlemanly contested tests in an acrimonous series between New Zealand and West Indies in early 1980...read the details! Had never heard of this incident!

Aggravation at repeated umpiring errors is understandable but Colin Croft's behavior and Clive Lloyd, as the West indies captain not trying to control his side, is despicable (and even Lloyd agrees, in hindsight). Even Croft's Cricinfo profile talks about this run-in with the umpire, Fred Goodall.

"Crofty," a West Indian team-mate once said, "would bounce his grandmother if he thought there was a wicket in it." In a relatively brief career lasting just five years, he established a reputation as one of the most chilling of fast men, with no compunction whatsoever about inflicting pain. There was little of the orthodox about him. The prancing run was straight but the batsman saw only his head bobbing behind the umpire until he veered out wide of the crease just prior to delivery, leaning back and slanting the ball awkwardly in to the right-hander. Often, as with Courtney Walsh later, it would hold up off the seam and move away.

Occasionally his volatility and enthusiasm for the bouncer got him into trouble, most notably when he kept the local infirmary busy while bowling for Guyana against the Australians in 1977-78, and again two winters later during an acrimonious tour of New Zealand, when he failed to veer out in his run and flattened the umpire Fred Goodall who had annoyed him.

Apparently, Imran Khan had this to say about Croft, deemed as one of cricket's XI meanest bowlers... "Genuinely nasty. He didn't seem to enjoy playing cricket very much."